Climate risk and response in Asia
Publish Date: 11/24/2020
News Source: McKinsey Global Institute
With many low-lying coastal cities exposed to flood and typhoon risk, dramatic increases in heat and humidity expected across the region, and extreme precipitation forecast in some areas but drought anticipated in others, Asian societies and economies will be increasingly vulnerable to climate risk without adaptation and mitigation… In our January 2020 global report … we found that physical risk from climate change is already present and growing around the world.
